Excerpt from an Assignment Written for a Course

The issue about whether humans should fight against climate change has been heavily debated on. There are many reasons for either position with credible evidence, however, there should be more motivation needed to convince those who do not understand the large amount of negative impact that climate change can have over many factors of everyone’s lives. There is a large impact climate change has over the world undoubtedly and humans need to put effort into fighting against it.

Climate change should be stopped as soon as possible so that negative consequences in general will have less of an impact. A journal related to this topic is “Effects of quality coffee production on smallholders’ adaptation to climate change in Yirgacheffe, Southern Ethiopia” by Asnake Adane and Woldeamlak Bewket. This journal is about a survey done on the effects of coffee farmers changing their farming practices for adaptation towards climate change. This journal shows the lessening of negative impacts from changing coffee farming practices through adaptation for climate change. The authors wrote about how their study shows that when coffee production is invested in to have higher quality it will help the progress towards adaptation for climate change (Adane and Bewket, 2021, pg. 525). This is a motivator for people to fight climate change, as quicker adaptation to climate change through quality farming can lessen future negative consequences’ impacts.

Due to climate change’s negative impacts, there will most likely be a decrease in food production which will in turn raise food prices and difficulty accessing it through reduction of supply and increase in demand. A journal, “Specialization in food production affects global food security and food systems sustainability” written by Mercedes Campi, Marco Duenas, and Giorgio Fagiolo discusses this. The authors wrote about how when there is specialization in the production of food products, this could affect sustainability and security in food accessibility globally. They wrote how one of the groups of countries they surveyed the practices of had less food production and imports and exports than the other. This group of countries contains low and middle class income populations while the other has mainly high and middle class populations (Campi, Duenas, Fagiolo, 2021, pg. 15). The conclusion that the authors come to is that there needs to be improvements done towards the food production gap between both groups of countries in order to improve food security and food systems to be sustainable so people around the world will have accessible food.